I'm wondering about some good brushing techniques for Coke, not your everyday brushing but something I can do a few times a year when I bathe him. If I use a shedding rake and just brush wither to tail, I do get a LOT of hair. But sometime if I look closer, you can still see a lot of gray undercoat sort of clumped near the skin. It's not matted, not an actual mat at all, but...I dunno it just seems like with his length and fullness of coat, just the regular brush strokes doesn't do the job. Today he had a bath, and when he was almost dry I laid him down and with either a pin brush or the shedding rake I went carefully over his entire body and sort of held the hair back against the grain and did quick, flicking strokes with the brush pulling it out from under my hand little by little. I've probably spent 2-3 hours on his groom job. Seems like this technique really fluffed up his coat a lot better and got a lot more of the loose undercoat. There were no mats to begin with but the coat now feels soft, light, and less clumpy. Does this make sense to you grooming folk? How would you go about brushing a Malamute, Chow, Pyr? That's the type of coat he has (except the pants and tail, which I carefully de-mat with a de-matting blade and brush with a pin brush, the de-matting blade seems to break/cut some of the hair but I actually like his pants and tail trimmed and thinned a bit).